Scientist on the Spot
Every month we invite expert scientists to answer your questions about the world around you. Just ask the Scientist on the Spot!
John Heffernan
He’s creating 350 million witnesses
John Heffernan is the Director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Linda Figg
She builds bridges of the future
Linda Figg is the designer behind the new St. Anthony Falls Bridge, which is currently being built to replace the collapsed I-35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis.
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Learn from past Scientists on the Spot. You can see visitors' questions and the researchers' answers.-
Renee Mosing
She’s looking beyond antibodies to fight disease -
Kirk Allison
He studies health and human rights -
Matt Panciera
He reads the writing on the wall -
Benjamin Ho
He probes a parasite -
Prisca Cushman
She watches for WIMPs -
Kate Pound
She studies seafloor sediment -
Kristi Wallace
She watches volcanoes make ash of themselves -
Julia Ponder
She mends broken wings -
Kathleen Coleman
She’s a gladiator expert -
Noelle Beckman
She studies sylvan seeds -
Ed Fleming
He pieces together Minnesota’s past -
Colleen McLinn
She studies how animals communicate -
Alan Goodman
He reads our lives in our bones and teeth -
P. Alex Greaney
He’s hacking nature’s nanotechnology -
Carmen Van Kerckhove
She’s helping others fight racism -
Paul Pentel and Dorothy Hatsukami
Their new vaccine helps smokers quit -
Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
He studies where we came from, where we're going -
Paul Morin
He's making a model -
Robin Low
He sells "green" nanotechnology -
Troy Goodnough
He's fanning the flames of change -
Dr. Bhargav Mistry
He's a transplant surgeon -
Greg Cuomo
He studies sustainable wind energy -
Janice Boercker
She studies nano solar cells -
Meri Firpo
She studies human stem cells -
Ghidewon Arefe
He studies tiny, tiny dots -
David Lee
He directs an anatomy program -
Dr. Mary Faith Marshall
She's a medical bioethicist -
Dr. May Yeu Heu - She's a Hmong physician
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Kate Larson
She studies a lost world -
Paul Wojda
He studies bioethics in the Catholic tradition -
Andrea Strauss
She studies relationships between wolves and humans -
Frank Bates
He studies the science of stuff -
James Kakalios
He studies superhero physics -
Ron Lawrenz
He studies critters in the water -
Russ Durkee
He studies weather at the South Pole -
Bryan Kennedy
He went to the School of Rock Kristi Curry Rogers
She studies dinos in Madagascar-
Catherine Yansa
She studies the secrets of the seeds -
Marla Spivak
She's breeding a better bee



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